05-25-2017, 01:22 PM
Nyland Daily News
Centrists and Greens strengthen their alliance
By Margaret Greenberg
Published: Fein 1584
Yasmin Malimey, the General Secretary of the New Centrist List, daughter of Khokharsan and Tambossan immigrants, played an important role in the joint conference.
New Fenridge, Nyland - Delegates and representatives from the New Centrist List and the Green Party gathered yesterday in New Fenridge, where they gathered in a meeting known as "Alternative for Nyland Joined Conference".
The conference took place only a month and half after the 8th Congress of the New Centrist List, where the centrist political party discussed and approved their new political platform -which is likely to amended and renewed after the primaries- and agreed to further increase their cooperation with the Green Party in order to build a "stronger centrist and progressive alternative governance for the Nylander Republic". The NCL congress also introduced important changes in the structure and organization of the centrist party, strengthening the executive role and influence of the General Secretary of the party, while establishing a new system of internal primaries, open to sympathizers and not only to militants, and separating both offices. The Congress also elected Yasmin Malimey as new General Secretary of the New Centrist List, replacing former vice presidente candidate Eyvind Beskow.
While the New Centrist List and the Green Party had already established electoral cooperation in certain non-competitive districts -under the name of New Centrist Alliance- they have agree to establish a new electoral coalition for the late 1584 elections under a new name, still to determine. While there was some especulation that the new name could be "Alternative for Nyland", following the conference name, members of both parties had denied this, arguing that it was just a generic name, and that the official name of the new electoral coalition will be announced soon.
Both parties will keep their own political independence, although they will campaign together. All New Centrist List and Green Party incumbent deputies and representatives -at both local, state and federal levels- will be remain as the endorsed candidates for the coming elections if they decide to run for reelection, while new or vacant candidates will be decided through a mixed system of primaries and an assigment of electoral viability. The new electoral coalition, which is expected to increase their result in the Nylander Assembly while more efficiently defending the seats won in the last electoral circles, it does not come exactly as a surprise, as both party have cooperated in a large number of issues, and the Green Party has officially endorsed New Centrist List candidates for the last three presidential elections.
The conference also agreed a joint and basic political agenda for the next five years, roughly defined as a "pro-business and pragmatist centrist and progressive alternative for the country, in defense of democracy, equality, and environmental protection", which is expected to be highly influenced by the result of the presidential primaries of the new coalition, which will be culminated in their first congress where a final electoral platform will be announced, just two months before the federal elections.
The new electoral coalition will try to take advantage of the declining approval rating of President Kohout, the divisions and chaos inside the Nyland Liberalists, and the lack of a realistic center-left alternative in the country. However, a number of New Centrist List had disagreed with this approach, which they believe is moving away the New Centrists from the original roots of the party, and several prominent members of the New Centrist List, such as Gunnar Bjeppesen, Albrekt Hildegardt, Daniel Lars Boardman or Olof Ekberg have joined the Moderates, a new federal political party.
Centrists and Greens strengthen their alliance
By Margaret Greenberg
Published: Fein 1584
Yasmin Malimey, the General Secretary of the New Centrist List, daughter of Khokharsan and Tambossan immigrants, played an important role in the joint conference.
New Fenridge, Nyland - Delegates and representatives from the New Centrist List and the Green Party gathered yesterday in New Fenridge, where they gathered in a meeting known as "Alternative for Nyland Joined Conference".
The conference took place only a month and half after the 8th Congress of the New Centrist List, where the centrist political party discussed and approved their new political platform -which is likely to amended and renewed after the primaries- and agreed to further increase their cooperation with the Green Party in order to build a "stronger centrist and progressive alternative governance for the Nylander Republic". The NCL congress also introduced important changes in the structure and organization of the centrist party, strengthening the executive role and influence of the General Secretary of the party, while establishing a new system of internal primaries, open to sympathizers and not only to militants, and separating both offices. The Congress also elected Yasmin Malimey as new General Secretary of the New Centrist List, replacing former vice presidente candidate Eyvind Beskow.
While the New Centrist List and the Green Party had already established electoral cooperation in certain non-competitive districts -under the name of New Centrist Alliance- they have agree to establish a new electoral coalition for the late 1584 elections under a new name, still to determine. While there was some especulation that the new name could be "Alternative for Nyland", following the conference name, members of both parties had denied this, arguing that it was just a generic name, and that the official name of the new electoral coalition will be announced soon.
Both parties will keep their own political independence, although they will campaign together. All New Centrist List and Green Party incumbent deputies and representatives -at both local, state and federal levels- will be remain as the endorsed candidates for the coming elections if they decide to run for reelection, while new or vacant candidates will be decided through a mixed system of primaries and an assigment of electoral viability. The new electoral coalition, which is expected to increase their result in the Nylander Assembly while more efficiently defending the seats won in the last electoral circles, it does not come exactly as a surprise, as both party have cooperated in a large number of issues, and the Green Party has officially endorsed New Centrist List candidates for the last three presidential elections.
The conference also agreed a joint and basic political agenda for the next five years, roughly defined as a "pro-business and pragmatist centrist and progressive alternative for the country, in defense of democracy, equality, and environmental protection", which is expected to be highly influenced by the result of the presidential primaries of the new coalition, which will be culminated in their first congress where a final electoral platform will be announced, just two months before the federal elections.
The new electoral coalition will try to take advantage of the declining approval rating of President Kohout, the divisions and chaos inside the Nyland Liberalists, and the lack of a realistic center-left alternative in the country. However, a number of New Centrist List had disagreed with this approach, which they believe is moving away the New Centrists from the original roots of the party, and several prominent members of the New Centrist List, such as Gunnar Bjeppesen, Albrekt Hildegardt, Daniel Lars Boardman or Olof Ekberg have joined the Moderates, a new federal political party.